“ ... the delicate balance between form and the exquisite colours ...”

Joanna Pitman, London Times

The London Times art critic Joanna Pitman wrote this about
Woolcock's style and influences:
"The scale and proportions of his work present an internal
harmony, and this mood is completed in the delicate
balance between form and the exquisite colours he uses.
We see lyrical lines and geometric fragmented shapes...
Woolcock has seemed to show an interest in Cubism and a
wonderful sense of contour and drama. There is a meditative
serenity in his colour variations which perhaps reflects the
contemplative personality of Woolcock himself...his
landscapes evoke the beauty and grandeur of the Irish and
English Countryside.”

Over the past twenty years, I have had the
pleasure of knowing Tim Woolcock and
observing the development of his style. As a
painter he has come a long way, defining and
refining his own language in communion with
art history, and as always, primarily, the British
and Irish landscape.
The source of his inspiration has remained the
same, as has the spiritual calm. What has
changed has been the form of his visual
discourse; that has over recent years acquired
a more elegant finesse.
Nowadays, as Tim ekes out their innate
essence: the contours, meanderings, scuffs
and scars of the landscape with which Tim
illuminates his discourse, have been
heightened by abstraction, evolving into
more refined but still idiosyncratic forms .
What he presents us with in his recent works,
are paintings that ask us to make of them
what we will – that challenge the uninitiated
to explore their hidden depths.
Force fields of syncopated geometry merge
to incorporate still life, portraiture and
landscape, here a nod to Calder et al, there a
bow to Braque.
As ever, the work is elemental and infinite in
its scope. As ever, the work is singularly
Woolcock – meditative, joyful, British in the
best sense of being British - and masterly,
increasingly so.

Peter Cameron, 2020

“ ... paintings that ask us to
make of them what we will ...”

“ ... the work is singularly
Woolcock - meditative, joyful,
British in the best sense of
being British ...”

Peter Cameron, art dealer

As a modern British painter Woolcock's
landscapes have often been described as
mystical in their composition. He has
always shown an affinity with Zen and this
is reflected in most of his work. The
strong pigments used in his oil colour
have also made his work distinctive.

Tim Woolcock (born 1952 in Lancashire,
England) is a Modern British painter in the
tradition of the 1950s.
His works have been exhibited nationally
and internationally and are in private and
public collections worldwide.
In 2009 the Office of Public Works in Dublin,
Ireland acquired one of his artworks for the
Department of Arts, Heritage and the
Gaeltacht.

Between 1963 and 1970, he attended
Arnold School in Blackpool, northern
England, and in 1971 the Roehampton
Institute (London University) to study
Philosophy and Art. From 1974–1986, he
taught in London schools.